Enrolment
All children aged between five and nineteen have a right to enrol in a state school if they are a domestic student, a fee paying student, an approved exchange student, or the holder of an approved student visa.
Parents of domestic students have the responsibility to make sure that they are enrolled in a school between the ages of six and sixteen.
Circular 2009/01 helps schools to determine a student’s status as either a domestic student or an international student.
To be able to enrol international students the school must be signed up to the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students.
To support school with the monitoring of enrolments and withdrawals the electronic enrolment register, ENROL was developed. This system providers a national register of school enrolments and withdrawals and is a replacement for the paper based E19/22A and E19/2C forms.
The role of the board
ENROL helps to identify students that are not enrolled at school, by identifying when they leave a school but do not enrol in another. The system notifies the ministry and the school for follow up.
A board will have processes in place that keep ENROL up-to-date for each student and accurately records when a student enrols, withdraws, or is absent for more than 20 days.
Questions to consider
- How is enrolment monitored in our school?
- What do enrolment trends look like in our school?
- How does this compare with other like schools?